TRACK

After finishing second in a triangular meet with Yale and Columbia, Coach Ellie Noyes' trackmen pulled one of the top stunts in modern Dartmouth athletic annals by routing Harvard's strong team, 80-60, in a thrilling dual meet here last month.

The Indian runners and weightmen had edged Columbia and trailed mighty Yale in an earlier triangular meet in which Dartmouth captured five first places. Captain Jim Burnham won the hammer; Stan Waterman took the two mile; Bill Spoor won the broad jump and the 120-yard high hurdles and Rog Hillas captured the high jump. Despite these performances, Yale scored 94 points to Dartmouth's 41 and Columbia's 38.

But this was merely a warm-up for the big event of the local season, the meet with Harvard. In eighteen previous meets with the Crimson, Dartmouth had won one. That victory came in 1938, to the tune of 71.6 to 63.4. And although Harvard was favored to win again, the proud Cantabs didn't reckon with the fighting spirit of this year's Dartmouth team. The meet began with Harvard walking off with almost every point in the weight events. Even Captain Burnham, the Big Green's great hammer thrower, was forced to be content with a second place in his specialty. Harvard swept the discus throw and shot-put and took first and second in the javelin. Bill Spoor managed to win the broad jump, with Dartmouth's Ed Hale second, and Wilbur Bull soared twelve feet to nab the pole vault ahead of two Harvard contestants. However, by the time the running events started, Dartmouth was far behind the favored visitors.

Then an amazing performance commenced to unfold. Dartmouth won every single running event until the final mile relay. By the time the relay took place the meet was clinched and Coach Noyes fielded a reserve baton combination to face a beaten rival.

Here is what happened in those running events. Dave Krivitsky won the 440 with Bob Fullerton third. John Cook captured the 100-yard dash with Drew Matthews second. Matthews took the 220 with Krivitsky third. Jim Hotchkiss won the 880 with Rene Blanc third. Stanton Waterman breezed to victory in the mile with Pierce Udall third. Then Waterman, one of the East's best runners, shepherded Ken Anderson to first place in the two mile, took second himself and paced Warren Daniell into third place, giving Dartmouth a sweep in this event. Waterman, who could have won easily himself, allowed his teammate to finish ahead of him and kept an eye on Daniell in a brilliant piece of maneuvering and sportsmanship. Bill Spoor kept the streak alive by winning the 120 high hurdles ahead of second place Jim Culbertson, and John Schalles ran away with the 220-yard low hurdles with Culbertson in second place.

Harvard was so discouraged at this point, that they almost lost the mile relay to a reserve Dartmouth foursome, but managed to win out when Dartmouth dropped the baton during a pass. As if the decisive beating wasn't enough for the Cantabs to stomach, Coach Ed Styrna's Dartmouth freshmen walloped their Crimson rivals by an identical score, 80-60, thus giving Harvard further doubts about the future of their track hopes against up-and-coming Dartmouth. The victory over Harvard was a tribute to the fighting qualities of the Dartmouth team and to Coach Noyes, whose strategy worked to perfection. After many lean years on the track, Dartmouth appears to be on the road upward.

Harry Ewing '49 TAKING THE CRIMSON'S MEASURE ON THE MEMORIAL FIELD TRACK: Left, Bill Spoor clears the last obstacle in the 120-yard hurdles to lead the field in the Harvard meet, while at the right, John Cook and Drew Matthews take first and second respectively in the 100-yard dash. Dartmouth won the meet, 80-60.

A LONG GAIN IN THE INTER-SQUAD SCRIMMAGE: Eddie Williams (17), Big Green scatback, shows his old form as he sweeps around right end during the three-hour scrimmage May 7 which ended spring football practice. Bill Monahan (55) and Stew Young (66) are shown rushing to aid Dick Gowen, who is tackling Williams.